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Our college is a spirit of collaborative efforts. This partnership with UF College of the Arts is the interdisciplinary nature in which FLORIDA thrives off of. #OneDCP

So impressed with how intentional the family is being about directing all proceeds to benefit the Gainesville community as a fixture of #TomPettyDay. Looking forward to their return for the posthumous awarding the Honorary Doctorate in Music to Tom Petty at FLORIDA Spring Graduation!

📣 JOB OPP 📣 the Center is looking for a Director and Associate/Full Professor to lead our close-knit and rapidly expanding academic community of artists and scholars working in and researching the intersections of arts and health. Learn more and apply🔗 bit.ly/CAM_Director

In an editorial penned this fall, UF COTA's Onye Ozuzu reflects on how artists and educators navigated the COVID-19 pandemic at FLORIDA and beyond, and shares her curiosities about lessons learned (and learning) while emerging from lockdown. Read here: bit.ly/DeanEditorialO…

On Oct 25 #ufcota prof Dr. Porchia Moore presented a talk for Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh professionals DEIA speaker series. Dr. Moore's talk focused on new 21st century practices for museums + professionals focused on decolonizing futures and increasing racial literacies. 🧵 1/2.

Congrats to The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social "Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice" co-authors, including @ameliawb from UF Digital Worlds Institute, on a successful book launch at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam as @idfa IDFA DocLab Recommended Book of 2022!

Thrilled to hear this #ImmersiveTheatre production in Denver has been extended! An incredible, brain-bending artistic collab between David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar. Featuring tech design by FLORIDA / UF College of the Arts AI & the Arts prof Heidi Boisvert!

How will #AI image generators affect artists? UF College of the Arts Assistant Professor Tina Tallon discusses this in a Science Friday podcast.

Dr. Lu recently invited me to join an Orchestra practice as narrator. What a breath of fresh air for me as a Dean! It was a reminder that I am also an artist/performer, and a moment to participate in our community in a more fully integrated way. Feeling grateful to participate!

Integrating art bedside since 1991. Arts in Medicine at Shands Hospital is the practice arm of UF College of the Arts -UF Center for Arts in Medicine. We are the research and teaching partners… conducting the empirical studies and teaching the courses that have lead the establishment the field of #ArtsInHealth.

Save the date 🗓️ for FLORIDA's 5th annual Stand Up & Holler: Gator Nation Giving Day, Feb. 16, 2023. Gators have made almost 51,000 gifts since the first Gator Nation Giving Day four years ago! Let's #GoGators and go bigger than ever in 2023! #AllForTheGators #StandUpAndHoller 🐊

Join #ufcota partner in art-for more-vibrant-communities, SPARC352, for the first of 5 Community Conversations & Art Contest workshops taking place in Gainesville, Fla. This Saturday:📍 Lincoln Estates neighborhood. See press release for details. Up to $10,000 in awards!

I enjoyed meeting w/ Mayor Harvey Ward to listen to him talk about art & culture in Gainesville, and his plans to support it to cultivate our city as a cultural hub. We discussed SPARC352, community-based-and-led storytelling & art making—and imagined what the future could look like.

Congrats to #Fulbright Portugal awardee, #ufcota ethnomusicology PhD candidate, Abigail Lindo!! Lindo is conducting ethnography research on the cultural and sonic lives of people and environment in São Miguel and teaching a course on anthropology & music at Univ. of the Açores.

UF Provost Joe Glover recently announced his intention to step back in July, 2023. He leaves a remarkable legacy & exciting path forward for FLORIDA and the Arts in FL. Here, UF College of the Arts Dean Emeritus, Lucinda Lavelli, and I reflect on his impact on our College: bit.ly/ProvostGlover_…

The Gator Marching Band (Fightin' Gator Marching Band) spent spring break in Ireland. Skies were a seasonal gray in Cork on St. Patrick's Day, but our Pride of the Sunshine brought a splash of Florida ☀️ to the Cork St. Patrick's Festival!

Fascinating to watch and listen as School of Music composition / #AIatUF professor, Dr. Tina Tallon demonstrates tech and music creation at the UF Medicine Research as Art awards ceremony last month. Assistant prof Tina Tallon, Ph.D. (she/hers) is a member of the UF College of the Arts AI & the Arts faculty cohort.

Sitting on the spiral staircase at the Institute for Black Culture, listening to stories of the evolution of respect in the UF – Gainesville community engagement.

Research and practice around #SocialPrescribiing at UF Center for Arts in Medicine featured in the Spring edition of University of Florida Research. Learn about EpiArts Lab, and a pilot program with U.S. Veterans Affairs that connects veterans with blacksmithing as an artistic practice for healing: explore.research.ufl.edu/rx-arts.html

Had a wonderful time celebrating two of our college units' founding directors, James Oliverio (UF Digital Worlds Institute) and Jill Sonke (UF Center for Arts in Medicine) as they step into new roles at UF College of the Arts. Thrilled to have 2 FLORIDA COTA Deans Emeriti, Donald McGlothlin and Lucinda Lavelli, join us at the party!